Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Eritrea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Essential Logic to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Lalann,
EPMD,
Con Funk Shun,
Pylon,
Jandek,
Amon Düül,
the Slits,
Bobby Womack,
Bush Tetras,
Banda Bassotti,
Pole,
Suicide,
Nas,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Pop Group,
Derrick Morgan,
Chris Corsano,
L. Decosne,
the Normal,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Busters,
Black Pus,
the Bar-Kays,
Bang On A Can,
The Electric Prunes,
David Axelrod,
JFA,
New Age Steppers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Juan Atkins,
Aural Exciters,
Au Pairs,
The Five Americans,
Stereo Dub,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ken Boothe,
Babytalk,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
Aloha Tigers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mantronix,
Kaleidoscope,
Sandy B,
Zapp,
Roger Hodgson,
Lower 48,
Barry Ungar,
PIL,
Saccharine Trust,
China Crisis,
E-Dancer,
John Foxx,
The Human League,
B.T. Express,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eden Ahbez,
The Barracudas,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.